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December 31, 2015 Benedict Seal

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (18) | Close-Up Film Review

There are regular references to the case of Patty Hearst throughout Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl; Hearst being a young woman who was kidnapped from her California home in 1974 by a left-wing revolutionary group and who later joined their cause, leading some to claim that she had been brainwashed.

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